Tipping at the hairdressers

Tiggs_2

I get a grade 2 on the sides and trim on top (takes 10 mins max) once a month....cost is £16 (i give £20 and always get a smile)

bleepandbooster

Well, I don't know about "Money Saving Experts" most of you seem to be "Money Spending Experts" My wife and I only pay £10......But we always give them a couple of quid more and I do the sweeping up !!!

Have we got the "Cheapest Crimpers" or what ? Answers on a postcard please !

David

kathyd_2

BargainHunterCat wrote:

I never tip hairdressers because when they sneakily charge me the best part of £100 by adding on "extra" after "extra", I have no money left to tip them with!

!!!£100!!! Who the **** cuts your hair? What extra's do you have that warrants a £100 bill at the hairdressers? Entertainment? I'd want a private performance by Robbie Williams before I handed over £100 of my hard earned cash to a hairdresser :eek: :eek:

Guinea_2

I used to go to the hairdressers where my Mum and Dad live and it was costing about £45 for a cut and colour until one week without warning they upped the price to £55! Anyway, I didn't go back and now my friend does a cut, colour, blowdry and straighten for £15. I pay for the colour from Tesco which I always get 2 for 1 so the whole thing works out at about £20. I used to tip a few years ago and now don't. I make my friend a cup of tea and we have some biscuits, I clear up and then she goes home. Great arrangement and I wouldn't go back to a salon.:D

rygon

i pay £9.50 for my haircut (having gone up from £8 in the last year or 2..although the hairdressers didnt get any pay increase) but i try to tip the lass £2.

Queenie

Bagpuss1973 wrote:

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If you start tipping where do you stop, do you tip your taxi driver ..

I was brought up to understand that you tip hairdressers, taxi drivers, porters, waiters/waitresses if they give you a good service and as a general rule of thumb it was 10%.

Taxi drivers on the rare occasions I've used them, these days rarely get off their laurels and tend to sit in their car, window open and beep their horn and you get to carry your own bags to the car :rotfl: (Oh and they never *quite* have enough "change" if you hand them a note :whistle: )

If I get good service and it's not included in the bill, then yes of course I tip waiters/waitresses. Porters I have no use of. My hairdresser would always get a tip until recent times when he's put his prices up by almost 25% so, now he doesn't get one because I think he's lucky to get my custom! Any further price hikes and I'll go to the local college and give the trainee's my custom.

kathyd_2

Queenie wrote:

If I get good service and it's not included in the bill, then yes of course I tip waiters/waitresses.

Why tip for "good service?" Shouldn't we EXPECT good service as a matter of course?

Queenie wrote:

..... now he doesn't get one because I think he's lucky to get my custom!

Good point Queenie - perhaps we should apply that thought to every public service we PAY for. Yes, they ARE lucky to have our custom! I wouldn't dream of tipping a shop assistant for putting my shopping into bags! There is more than one hairdresser/restaurant/taxi company etc. in business. Its scandalous that employees rely on tips to make up their wages. Someone said to me a while back that if customers stopped tipping, employers would be forced to put up the wages.

My DD worked in a restaurant (and still does occasionally when she's home from uni) and her employer said he would pay £x per hour, but if she took the tips left at her tables he would reduce her hourly pay. The choice (?) was hers. She decided to opt for the higher rate of pay and hand over the tips to her employer. As she is paid 'cash in hand' she felt she couldn't make a fuss (its quite difficult for a student to get temp work here now)

Having said all that I DO tip my hairdresser (not much, admittedly!.) She has the power to make me look a right plonker when I leave the salon :rotfl: :rotfl:

Phatmouse

Scully's_Girl wrote:

I get my hair cut and coloured, which is usually over £100, which I hate but what are you gonna do? I always tip, but how about this scenario? What about when for whatever reason they have to switch stylists? There have been times that, because of my fault or theirs, I have one stylist for awhile then they have to switch to another. Should I split the tip if its my fault and just tip the last person if its theirs?

It must be to pay for the massive windows they have so they can see you coming!

Why would you tip someone who charges you £100 to do your hair, they must think your hilarious. :rotfl:

ka7e

At my hairdresser's there are some "direct" (mainly trainees and juniors) employees, but most of the girls rent their chair and have use of all the salon facilities. They have to earn enough to cover their costs and anything else is profit, so they are basically self-employed. I reckon they should have costed everything out when they set their prices, so I don't generally tip! They all wash their own client's hair so their is no shampooer to pay.

niccy

we have lived on a small island for 8 years,obviously no hairdressers,so no tipping.we have become quite proficent with the Wahl and scissors although sometimes one of us needs a hat for a week or two:rotfl: